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okay so you all should be able to see um
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the lesson for tonight it's called Uh
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from the scriptures who and what we are
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and why did God make us
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okay now you should be able to see the
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okay so
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um
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the first point here is that mankind or
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humankind is created is a created being
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so we did not evolve from lower life
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forms as some of the other people will
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say
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and it's particularly important that we
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look in scripture and we see that when
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God created other life forms he spoke to
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the Earth that's Genesis 1 11.
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but when he created mankind he spoke to
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himself that's Genesis 1 26 so we are
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different from all other life forms
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we are not just another animal
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Isaiah 45 12 says it is I who made the
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Earth and created man upon it and
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stretch out the heavens with my hands
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and I ordained all of their hosts it
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says in Genesis 2 7 then the Lord God
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formed man of dust from the ground and
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breathe into his nostrils of breath of
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life and Man became a living being
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Genesis 2 7.
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but job says and they in chapter 10
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verses 8 through 12 your hands fashioned
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me and made me all together
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and then job also said in chapters 10
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verses 2 through 3 uh I will say to God
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do not condemn me and let me know why
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you contend with me is it right for you
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to oppress to reject the labor of your
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hands and to look favorably on the
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schemes of the wicked so what job is
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saying here is that he acknowledges that
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God is his creator and he made him and
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God created Adam out of the Earth
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but it says that
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um for those after Adam he creates us
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through natural birth
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Job 31 15 says did he not did not he who
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made me in the womb make him this and
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the same one fashion Us in the womb
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and um David writes in psalm
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139 14. he says I will give thanks to
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you for I am fearfully and wonderfully
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made and wonderful are your works and my
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soul knows it very well
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so we're not just
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um
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an animal created by natural birth but
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we are fearfully and wonderfully made so
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there's more to us than just a body
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and when God made mankind he made them
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two genders he made them male and female
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Mark 10 6 says but from the beginning of
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creation God made the male and female
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and also Matthew 19 says have you not
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read that he who created them from the
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beginning made to male and female
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now the woman was created to help man
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that's Genesis 2 8 and the Lord God said
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it is not good for man to be alone I
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will make him a helper fit for him
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and man is to give glory to God and
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woman is to give glory to man
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but it says in First Corinthians 11 7
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for a man ought not to have his head
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covered since he is in the image and
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glory of God but the woman is the glory
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of man
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Now That Glory is something that God the
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father gives to Christ
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and that God he gives up to us and we
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give it back to God and all of this is
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because of the love that we share
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between us
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appreciate it um
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they're in John 17 22-24 it says that
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the glory that you have given me that is
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God and Father gave to Christ I've given
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to them that is his disciples that they
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may be one even as we are one so the
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purpose of that is to give us unity and
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he says father I desire that they also
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whom you are given me may be with me
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where I am to see my glory that you have
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given me because you love me
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before the foundation of the world so
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um glory is something that God gives to
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Christ Christ gives to us and we give
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back to God and it's because of love
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so it also says that mankind was created
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to live on the surface of the Earth acts
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17 26-27 says that mankind was created
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to live on the face of the Earth
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and we have a duty that we should seek
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God and perhaps feel our way towards him
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and find him so it's our lives are not
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just whatever we want to make it but one
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of our first orders of business is to
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seek God
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the um Psalms 8 3-6 says that mankind is
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to receive glory and majesty and then
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give Glory back to God
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so God says you crown him with glory and
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Majesty and then Isaiah 43 7 says I have
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created mankind for my glory so you can
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see that in Psalm 8 chapter 8 God gives
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us glory and Majesty but God created us
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for his glory
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and then got 0.6 is mankind is to rule
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over every living thing on Earth
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so in
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um
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let's see if I can move this
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all right so I can see here but uh
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God said that let us make man as an
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image and let the rule over the fish of
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the Sea and the birds of the sky or the
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kettle of the earth and over every
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creepy thing that creeps on the Earth
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so God gave man Dominion
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and it also says in Psalm 8 that you
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made him to rule over the works of your
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hands
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and again in Jeremiah 27 it says God
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says when I will give
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um
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this power
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and to those who are pleasing in my
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sight so he gave man to rule over the
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beasts of the Earth
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and then mankind is not just a rule
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for his own sake but he's to serve God's
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purposes in Psalm 119 it says if they
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were we are to learn his Commandments
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then Proverbs 16 4 says that God made
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everything for its own purpose so he
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gave us a purpose and we are to learn
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the God's Commandments that teaches us
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what those purposes are
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and then
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um it also reminds us in Isaiah 64 8
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that again he formed us we are the work
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of his hand
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now
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um
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Genesis 9 6 shows us that God is made
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man has made an image of God and it's a
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grave sin to murder because God we are
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made in God's image and that is as if we
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were to attack God himself
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and uh James also says that we are to
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bless God so
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um we are not the Cursed Men because we
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are made in likeness energy God and
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instead we are to bless our God and not
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only bless God but bless
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um those who are made in His image
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Genesis 5 1-2 says that
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um
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he blessed us so we are to bless God as
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God blesses us
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and point nine here is a little
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difficult for some people to understand
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but is that we're made as a tripart
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being we have a body which is our
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physical body we have a soul and a
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spirit
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now
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um the word Spirit comes from the Hebrew
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word ruach which means wind the spirit
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is the peace of God within us that is in
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relationship with God so
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um this is what gives us life and this
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is what is perfected when we're born
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again through faith in Jesus Christ
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there's a lot of confusion between Soul
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and Spirit but the soul is a different
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word nephesh in Hebrew which means
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breath
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so wind and breath
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so the soul is the mind the will and
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emotions is where we think and feel it's
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basically our personality it is what
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contains our memories
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but it is distinct from the spirit
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then the body is called the basar on
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flesh this is a physical vessel in which
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the Soul and Spirit reside and it is the
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interface between the Soul and Spirit
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and the physical world
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um just a quick aside here in 1995 I was
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actually killed in a gas explosion and
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for a while I was out of my body and I
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could see my body on the floor
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and even though I wasn't in my body
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I had the um
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I had my full personality I had all my
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memories uh everything that I would
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consider to me me was still surviving
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the body
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even though I was no longer in it so
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um
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the body doesn't really contain our
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personality or even our memories those
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are actually in our soul
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um so that's just an interesting little
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point there
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and then
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the Zechariah 12 1 says that God forms
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the spirit of man within him so the
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spirit is within our body in Matthew 10
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8 says do not fear those who can kill
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the body and cannot kill us all but fear
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God who can destroy both soul and body
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and hell so the soul in the body can be
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destroyed we know that the body dies and
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the souls that reject God that sin God
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will destroy in hell
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uh something that's not clearly stated
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in the Bible but which is something that
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I understand is that our spirit is
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eternal and comes from God and returns
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to him uh when the soul is destroyed in
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hell but that's another lesson
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altogether
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then the another purpose of the soul is
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to bless God we talked about how God
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blesses us and we bless God
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and then another duty of the soul is to
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wait and Hope on God
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um so Usama says that we are to wait in
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silence and Hope on God but the soul is
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also to rejoice and exult in God so we
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will rejoice and exult in his salvation
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well that's a whole other lesson right
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there but
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um because he gives us salvation we are
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to Rejoice before God
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and then rejoicing God even gives us a
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song job says that he gives us songs in
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the night uh there's a there's a whole
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lesson there but God gives us the songs
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that we praise him with
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the next thing is that mankind is uh is
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in a sense a witness to the um the host
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in heaven that we are to represent both
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the mundane that is the Earthly or
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material world and the Divine
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simultaneously
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so Paul writes in First Corinthians 15
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48-49 we have borne the image of the
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Earthly we also bear the image of the
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Heavenly so we are a unique creature
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that represents both God's physical
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creation and God's Heavenly Realm
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then 11 this is very important mankind
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is to love God so the Commandment one of
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the Ten Commandments is Deuteronomy 6 5
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and it says that we are to love God with
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all our heart with all our soul and all
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the might
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and
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um
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this is important because Psalm 33 18
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says that God will deliver from Death
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those who love him and respect him fear
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Him is more better in English it's to
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say respect God that is to give him
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honor
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um and this is because of God's love
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it says that um in Psalm 138 8 that
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um the loving God the loving-kindness of
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God is Everlasting so
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um we ask him to remind him that his
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love for us is Everlasting and that is a
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way we invoke his
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our Salvation because we ask him not to
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forsake us his work because of his love
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then the next thing is that love
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glorifies God and we explain that above
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and then the spirit has another purpose
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and it is to give life to the body it
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says in job 34 14-15 that if God were to
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withdraw his Spirit from us uh All Flesh
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would die
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and that refers not only to mankind but
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also to the
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um other living things the animals the
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plants uh the fish the birds the
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creeping things the insects the whole
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um
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the whole order of creation that is
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living will die if God were to withdraw
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his spirit so his Spirit not only gives
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life to our bodies it gives lives to
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everything on Earth
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and then job also says that in 33 4.
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and then
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um we see in Isaiah 4 20 42 5 that
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um again God gives his breath to us his
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spirit and this is what gives us life it
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animates us
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um
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and then
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um again Hebrews 2 7 Paul reminds us
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that he has appointed us to be over the
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works of his hand that's a lot of order
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here uh I put this lesson together
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rather quickly so that would go better
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up with the god-giving dominion over
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mankind
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but Point 12 is the duty of mankind is
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to fear respect God to obey him in love
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and serve him with all our being
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Deuteronomy 10 12 tells us that God one
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of the things that God requires us is to
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walk in all his ways that's why we learn
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his Commandments to love him and we
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prove our love by obeying him and to
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serve God with all our heart and soul
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now serving God has a lot of different
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things involved there which I'll talk
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about shortly
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um but Joshua 22 5 says that we are to
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keep his Commandments and serve him with
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all our heart with all our soul so
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um that has to be with with passion it's
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implied it's not just out of mere duty
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but it's passion
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and then in Micah 6 8
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um the other duties that we have are to
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do justice and to love kindness and to
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walk humbly with your god
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um humility again is clearly tied to
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obedience uh another part of the Bible
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says that Moses was the most humble of
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all men
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and if you look at the exact meaning of
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that passage it meant he's the most
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obedient so whatever God told him to do
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he did
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okay it looks like we're getting short
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on time here so I'm going to
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speed up a little bit oh we generally
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rejoin
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um when it cuts out so no problem
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okay well then um the last point I have
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here is that the other duty of mankind
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is to Rejoice before our maker that's
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Deuteronomy 2 12 2 where uh it says that
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we shall rejoice before the Lord Our God
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and Sons and Daughters servants and
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um even and in the priest and in that
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passage It also says that we are to help
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the Widow the orphan and the Sojourner
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to Rejoice so
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um we're not to Rejoice just by
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ourselves but if people who are too poor
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to celebrate before God we are to
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materially Aid them in rejoicing before
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God
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and then it says in Deuteronomy 12 18.
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we're to Rejoice before God and all that
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we undertake so in a sense our work is
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worshiped our taking care of our family
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is worship
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um we should rejoice in everything that
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God gives us to do and I believe Solomon
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told us that one of the things we are to
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do is rejoice in all that we're given to
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do unto the son
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and that's basically why who we are and
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why God made us and what we are to be
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what God expects of us
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and this kind of leads into the next
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lesson where we talk about the fall of
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Lucifer and how that led to the
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um fall of mankind with him and then the
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rise of mankind from sin because when
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Lucifer rebelled against God he
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abandoned his role which was to lead the
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worship of God in heaven
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and so God gave mankind a savior to
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redeem us from sin because we are in
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turn to take over that duty of
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worshiping God so that's a whole other
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lesson so I think there was more than
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the 15 minutes you suggested I hope I
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didn't uh
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and over step my bounds here but thank
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you for listening me and now if there's
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any questions uh
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we are open to questions here
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yeah so we plan for 30 minutes for you
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calm not 15 so it's okay
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oh okay
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anyone has any questions please feel
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free to ask so like I have told this
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once before so we are I mean it's a very
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good plan for us to know all this and
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know more in detail because just knowing
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about the
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existence of evil spirits or demons or
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what harm they can do is only going to
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leave us with fear but to understand
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more deeply
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um in the subject and our Authority and
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what God's plan and what he is doing
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about it what did he what he said about
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these things will give us
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more you know confidence and proper
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understanding so that we will not live
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in fear but we can actually do something
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about it for ourselves and also help
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others get delivered so I am very glad
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that we are doing this in-depth study of
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this thank you Khan
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we welcome
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um again if there's any questions or
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comments I would appreciate the feedback
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yeah is everybody still awake out there
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yeah yeah please unmute if you have any
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questions and you can keep in comments
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I'll ask if uh if you have you have to
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ask in Telugu also that's fine
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okay
